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Echeveria posted:My cousin and his wife named their kids Tazlun and Nixen. Tazlun is a combo of their friends two kids names. I can't even think of two names that Taz- and -lun could come from. I guess Luna? Tazewell??
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Echeveria posted:I know someone who's first name is Candida. As in yeast infections. She gets really defensive and tells everyone it means white in spanish, which it may very well, but she is white as hell. Spanish for 'white' is 'blanco'?
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Candida comes from Latin candidus, which means shining or bright, but also can mean white. Candida is a perfectly valid name in both Spanish *and* English, incidentally. St. Candida is one of the very earliest saints in Christianity, plus the name got a bit of a boost in the English-speaking world from George Bernard Shaw's comedy of the same name.
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It's report card season so I get to look at other classes' "English" names. O'Shine So ho Coobie Jassa (a boy, kind of cool I guess?) Bosco (god drat another one) Plus the usually Hailey, Haley, Hayley and Hailees.
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Axiem posted:At which point, I thought "Oh, okay, a girl named Grace. A bit out there, but not exactly unknown." Grace is an 'out there' name for you ? Where I'm from, it's as common as dirt.
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bringmyfishback posted:"This is my son, Grassy Place Full of Drunk People." Sounds like it's as a porn star name then.
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Candida isn't Spanish, it's Latin.
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Jerry Cotton posted:A lot of Spanish people like to think they're white as well. The government paper work my students have to fill out for class now makes them pick both "Ethnicity" (Hispanic or Not; pick one) and "Race" (White, Black, Native American, Pacific Islander, Asian; check all that apply). Some of them get really mad about having to pick both Hispanic and something else, but almost always pick "white" in the end.
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Kurtofan posted:Candida isn't Spanish, it's Latin. LatinO  
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No it's Latin Latin, unless that's the joke.
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Echeveria posted:Koen.
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Kestrel, named not after the bird but the beer.
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Reminds me of a teacher at one of the other high schools in my hometown, name was Guy Beard. Easy to remember because he was the guy with the beard.
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Kurtofan posted:No it's Latin Latin, unless that's the joke. 
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stubblyhead posted:Reminds me of a teacher at one of the other high schools in my hometown, name was Guy Beard. Easy to remember because he was the guy with the beard. When your name is Guy Beard, I think you have a moral obligation to grow an enormous mountain man beard.
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Panic! at Nabisco posted:I know a Koen. I think it's a pretty normal Belgian name. Dutch too. For those of you who aren't Belgian or Dutch, it's pronounced Coon.
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Bertrand Hustle posted:When your name is Guy Beard, I think you have a moral obligation to grow an enormous mountain man beard. I wonder if Frank Beard would have grown a huge biker beard like the other guys in ZZ Top if he didn't have the last name.
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Dysgenesis posted:Kestrel, named not after the bird but the beer. I went to school with a girl called Kes, named after the bird in the film.
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Came up on Pandora. Engelbert Humperdinck
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cat_snake posted:Came up on Pandora. Really? I guess this is new to you as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPTXVqETBM4
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Jerry Cotton posted:Really? I guess this is new to you as well: I'll have to delete the station if it starts playing that.
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Bertrand Hustle posted:When your name is Guy Beard, I think you have a moral obligation to grow an enormous mountain man beard. Or marry a woman.
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The first baby of the year in my town just got born and she is named Tauriel Octavia.
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Phy posted:I wonder if Frank Beard would have grown a huge biker beard like the other guys in ZZ Top if he didn't have the last name. He had a (somewhat smaller) one at one point. 
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Say Nothing posted:What? That's a photoshop, but fret not: the kid's real name is Colton Burpo.
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My father-in-law knew a priest named Royal Vatican. Impotent before the Wheat King, but still.
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What IS this, Britain's Next Top Slapper?
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Some of the choice names amongst my students: Phalen (exactly like failin', which he is mercifully not doing) Keilah (kee-eye-luh) Aguila (white as the driven snow) Dayman Emmalee (I guess Emily wasn't unique enough) Jaslynn Kamisha Nikayla Vherra
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All on Black posted:Some of the choice names amongst my students: Is he a master of karate and friendship for everyone?
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All on Black posted:
My grandmother had a friend called Emmalee who was born in the 1890s. So it may be little snowflake-y, but it certainly isn't new.
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Jerry Cotton posted:A lot of Spanish people like to think they're white as well. Yeah that was a pretty dumbass comment from me. Sorry.
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bringmyfishback posted:What IS this, Britain's Next Top Slapper? It's from a dating reality show from Ireland called Take Me Out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rtlUae2q2k e: All on Black posted:Vherra Is this one just pronounced like Vera? My grandmother's name was Vere, pronounced more or less like Varee. No idea where it came from. stubblyhead has a new favorite as of 18:30 on Jan 6, 2015 |
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Pompous Rhombus posted:From Deadspin: South Dakota High School Wrestler Names, Ranked SD is a treasure trove of horrible names. Some of it is due to the natives out here giving their kids traditional names, or having very native last names. The Minnehaha County Jail is a great treasure trove of them. Plenty of Dakotas, but some are just...what? Espercially when you compare what crime they did. For example, guy with the last name Bland who got in a shootout with the cops. There's also a Willylon Waylon (first and middle), a Jozella, Guyo Dido, Gaylina, Minnie Rouse (her parents musta thought it was cute), Schmith, Tahnasha, Theophile Takenalive, Rickey Recarter, And that's just one county. Granted, it's the most populous county in the state, but still....
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AA is for Quitters posted:Rickey Recarter, Lurcy, I'm horme
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Saw a tv interview today with a man named Butch Knight.
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AA is for Quitters posted:Jozella Is South Dakota known for its Mormon population? This sounds like a Mormon name. Mormon names are something special indeed. Jennyfivetina, Truckston, and Thermos just tickle me.
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